Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

I don't like allegory.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge